Aerial Photos & Video: Newport Race Finishers
As of this afternoon [June 21] just over half the Newport Bermuda Race fleet has finished in Bermuda, with some seen berthed in Hamilton, including the island’s own Spirit of Bermuda, which completed the race today.
The race got underway on Friday [June 17], with the 187 strong fleet starting the 635-nautical mile ocean race, with this year seeing the first ever Saturday finisher, with Argo setting a new record time of only 33 hours.
While normally an entirely fun event, unfortunately this year was marred with tragedy, as Colin Golder, the captain of the yacht Morgan of Marietta, died after going overboard in strong winds approximately 325 miles from Bermuda.
According to the organisers, the biennial Newport Bermuda Race — which was founded in 1906 — is one of the oldest regularly scheduled ocean race, one of very few international distance races, and one of just two of the world’s regularly scheduled races held almost entirely out of sight of land.
This race marks the second international sailing fleet to visit the island this month, as it follows after the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race fleet visited the island, marking their first ever stop in Bermuda.
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